麻豆约拍

There was a marked difference in the life experience of working class and middle class children in Victorian Britain. It was common for children from working class families to work long hours in mines, mills and collieries from a very early age. The clip traces successive Parliamentary Acts, including the 1864 Factory Act and the 1880 Education Act which made education compulsory. It goes on to chart the increase in the school leaving age into modern times.